Bug Description

Symptoms
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I use audacity with the "Status Icon 0.5" plugin. This plugin "provides
a status icon, placed in the system tray area of the window manager."
When I click on the status icon, the audacity window will show or hide
itself. When showing, the window reappears in the last position I moved
it to before it was hidden.

I did an "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" this morning.
(See dpkg.log for the list of packages that changed). I rebooted the
system.

Now, when I click the status icon to show the audacity application,
the window always appears near the top-left corner of the screen.
"xwininfo" shows:

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i can confirm this bug on 9.10
for me, only the player window is repositioned, the playlist stays put
it's not doing it all the time though, only if there was a track change between hiding and unhiding the player with the status icon

I'm on Maverick amd64, and I'm still experiencing this issue. Doesn't matter which skin I use. This is Audacious 2.4.0, from the ubuntu repos. Clicking the status icon once makes the app disappear, and clicking it again restores it way up in the left hand corner of the screen, and always with the playlist unconnected from and obscuring the main window. I've noticed the same behaviour with another plugin, the "Global Hotkey" plugin, with which I've assigned "Toggle Player Windows" to a hotkey to quickly hide/show Audacious. Every time I reshow it with the hotkey, it ends up in the top left. Really maddening! Note that I have only a single gnome panel along the bottom edge of the screen, with the system tray ("Notification area") in the bottom right, like in windows.

Ah, this only happens in metacity. When I switch to compiz (switching from no desktop effects to normal effects), it goes away completely. Window position is remembered every time for Audacious (but not necessarily all other apps for some reason). So this is really a metacity bug, and I'm marking it as a duplicate of Bug #124315